Re: life-saved

Re: life-saved

"Life-saved" immediately places the speaker in a previously life-threatening context, and makes their rescue sound more dramatic than the plainer "I was saved".

Additionally, while the latter would be accurate, it would also be open to greater misinterpretation, especially by people belonging to certain Christian denominations.

Re: life-saved

Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2018 8:43 am

by Phil White

Yes, trolley, that's the grammatical oddity.

As far as the semantics are concerned, I do get the feeing that your life can be saved by anybody who happens to be there when you are in mortal peril, but you can only be life-saved by a (professional) lifesaver. Unfortunately, my friend could not quote the rest of the bulletin to confirm that it was a lifesaver that saved her.

Re: life-saved

Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2018 3:24 pm

by tony h

I am struggling to make sense of "I was life-saved."

The only image that come up is that the subject was unwilling and it is ironic.